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The past may be a foreign country, but in terms of war, they do not do things differently there; death is death at any time and in any language. No other work in the Classical repertoire could be more…
The smartphone continues its rise and rise as the device of choice for our everyday activities. Our keys used to be the one thing we would have to carry around with us at all times and losing them would…
The number of physical robberies on banks has fallen dramatically in recent years, but the amount of money banks are losing through electronic methods has rocketed. In 2013 for example, the annual fraud…
From John Barrowman’s Scottish accent to Susan Boyle’s nervous take of Mull of Kintyre to the cheered tribute to Nelson Mandela, the Commonwealth Games gave us an opening ceremony to remember. And that’s…
So, Facebook has been in the dock after publishing details of a supposedly sinister experiment it oversaw several years ago. It involved monitoring the moods of around 700,000 users based on their posts…
One big security issue that has arisen lately concerns control of news media. National boundaries have become blurred on the internet, and the control any nation can have over information dissemination…
Scotland’s referendum debate has so far centred mainly on practical issues and medium-term choices like currency, new entities’ share of public debt, and membership of the EU. Far less has been said about…
TweetDeck, a Twitter app with millions of users, is back online after a rather surprising security scare. For several hours, the service was taken down all because a 19-year-old user tried to add a cute…
We need to watch out for headlines like the ones earlier this week warning that people had two weeks to protect themselves from a “powerful computer attack”. It can end up scaring people who have little…
Glasgow School of Art is one of the few buildings that can lay genuine claim to the word “iconic”, not just for the style of architecture it represents, but for the complex symbolism invested in every…
The Erasmus+ programme, which aims to boost the number of students and staff studying and working abroad across the European Union, started on January 1 2014. It will provide €14bn to 33 countries over…
The 2014 Brazil World Cup and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are becoming a running story, and not in the way organisers might like. We have seen news about public riots, lack of preparation, low quality infrastructure…
Here is a puzzle for you. Why did shares in Yahoo! slide by nearly 10% in the days before Heartbleed was announced and then recover after the main news items broke? It has long been the case that security…
In the late 1950s, more than a decade after the war and not long after the rock and roll explosion, Britain embarked on a house-building programme the like of which we have never seen before or since…
Film making in Scotland has never been easy. Scots’ almost unrivalled appetite for cinema rarely finds its way into the pockets of performers, producers, crew or facilities. We make so few films each year…
With the likes of RBS, Lloyds/Bank of Scotland and Standard Life all raising concerns about the prospects of Scottish independence in recent days, various commentators have been pointing to the risks that…
When culture secretary, Maria Miller, said a Yes vote by Scotland would entail the departure of the BBC, it reignited the debate about its future in an independent Scotland, and also its value north of…
The third season of the BBC’s Sherlock opens with a bang and gives us Derren Brown, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock in an action hero window smash, followed by an insouciant hair tousle and a Hollywood…
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Professor of Transport and Health, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associated Professor in Tourism, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Mechanical & Energy Engineering, Edinburgh Napier University
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PhD Candidate, Olfaction, Edinburgh Napier University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Marketing, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
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PhD Candidate, Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Sociology, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Immunology and Infection, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor of Intercultural Communications (Tourism and Languages), Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Criminology, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor, Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Edinburgh Napier University
